PCFC - Mr. Sky 3/9

I have a couple of the challenge manicures done, but I have a friend visiting from the US so I haven't been blogging much.

Here is my Mr. Sky! I had no idea what this meant, so I just took it literally. I thought about adding little black sunglasses and a smile the way I drew all of my suns growing up, but decided that would probably just mess it up. :)

I really like how my left hand turned out! I love the suns, but they turned out a little less defined on my right hand.

I used a light blue Color Club and sponged a darker CC blue over it for the base. I used a dotting tool to free hand the clouds after my cloud stamping plate wasn't cooperating. I also used a dotting tool for the birds and the suns/rays.

Here is the slightly wonky right hand.

These pictures make the birds look like they are flying upside down. lol.

What do you think?

My Spooky Anniversary Stamping

I saw this Spooky Stamping technique by Chalkboard Nails and was super excited to try it! Back in September I used someone's (can't remember at the moment) tutorial on how to make owls. I had also recently been gifted the OPI mini Halloween set. I did glow-in-the-dark/black stripes on 8 of my fingers and owl accent fingers, but I never would have thought to stamp over glow-in-the-dark polish to get the same effect. Genius!

I asked the boyfriend to pick out the designs and colors for our anniversary date nail art and he picked a shockingly bright (in person) yellow by Color Club with black stamping. Here is how it came out!

Clearly I messed up the plaid stamp, but rather than try to piece a second stamp onto the first, I decided it was "artistic" this way (ha!). :)

It's a shame you can't see how alarmingly bright this yellow is in these pictures.

Here you can see the glow-in-the-dark! So neat! It was a lot brighter/clearer in person, but I don't have a fancy pants camera to capture it accurately. I still think these pictures are pretty freaking cool!

I hated taking these nails off, but I wasn't really experiencing their cool effect even at night, so I left them for a few days and then moved on. I'm sure I'll be trying this again sometime soon!

What do you think? Were you as impressed by Chalkboard Nails' post as I was?